Some former cast members of “Le Rêve,” a Las Vegas show that shut down during the pandemic, are still unemployed; others have found odd jobs. For many of them, this type of work is all they’ve ever known.
Raman Stsepaniuk and Ludivine Perrin-Stsepaniuk started dating sixteen years ago, after they had both moved to Las Vegas. Raman, then twenty-seven, was an acrobat, born in Belarus, who had toured Soviet Russia and the United States with a circus troupe. Ludivine, who goes by Ludi, was a lanky twenty-one-year-old who had recently retired from France’s national synchronized-swimming team.
Nearly two years after “Le Rêve” went dark, the cast is still grappling with what it means to be a performer without a show in Las Vegas. Some are still unemployed; others have found odd jobs—as sales representatives, hospital technicians, Pilates instructors. A handful are training to audition for other shows, biding their time until an elusive contract opens up in a city overrun with talent.
During evenings and weekends, when he’s not installing billboards, Raman coaches at a trapeze facility, leisurely work that he likens to “therapy from the job that provides the paycheck.” Early one Sunday morning, I drove to a dirt lot between a golf course and a go-kart racetrack to watch him train acrobats who weren’t ready to give up performing.
“I don’t feel like I’m almost there,” Morlen told me, frustrated, after the practice. He’d only been at “Le Rêve” for a year and a half when it closed. He had been a gymnast since the age of five, and “Le Rêve” was his first big show. “I had it in my head—this was my career, I don’t want to leave,” Morlen said. Now, he was working as a sales representative in a plant nursery while training with Raman two or three days a week, hungry for another shot onstage.
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